Tracy, I almost posted something very similar yesterday, but got called away...I have been in situations in the past that have led to me becoming very low, and depressed, and stuck in holes that I've really struggled to heave myself out of, and when I started in therapy for my ED, I realised that I have been "tested" and pushed to my limits on several occasions and yet I am here to tell the tale. And my way of thinking shifted from believing I was weak because those things affected me so much and for allowing myself to reach such depths of despair, to actually thinking that I'm quite strong, because I survived, I got myself through them, and I'm still here. And through that belief, I acknowledge that life will still deal me some harsh blows sometimes, but I KNOW that I WILL survive, and just in knowing and believing that, I don't think I will ever fall quite so far as I have done in the past, before I start to bounce back again.